Author Archives: mfagan

In which I make up for my last few blog posts about decades’-old work and talk about some work in progress. I don’t remember when I first learned about digital accessibility and made some changes to my then-website to support … Continue reading →

Continuing with my attempt to write about some things I’m doing at work, here are two related stories from a decade ago. In these cases, they were projects involving plenty of other people. Although I played a significant role, I … Continue reading →

I built a little game one weekend of March 2018, and tweaked it a bit over a few weeks. I always meant to polish it further and release it, and since it is 2026, I am doing just the releasing … Continue reading →

This is the story of some work I did for an employer over a decade ago, although I think it is still very applicable today. I always meant to try to get some of the code released, but now much … Continue reading →

The idea In late 2012, I was running Waste Nothing, which listed options for reducing waste by type of item, and I wanted to do something that was more direct action that just listing others’ services. I saw what was … Continue reading →

Genealogy has been a hobby of mine for some time. One thing that has long frustrated me is that although there are good tools for creating a family tree—managing data, basically—there are not a lot of good ways for seeing … Continue reading →

Some time in the last few years, all of my Google Contacts contacts became “starred,” rendering the feature useless and annoying me constantly. I finally fixed the problem today. The interface has no obvious method to bulk un-star contacts, and … Continue reading →

For background, see Genetic Genealogy for Jewish Ancestry and Overcoming Endogamy in DNA (YouTube) by GeneaVlogger. If you take a DNA test to find relatives, and you’re from an endogamous population (such as being Ashkenazi), you need to look at … Continue reading →